Medieval Dates and Periods Shown in Class

Key Dates ( regarding dates-- you will see slightly different dates in different source, depending on what event they use to mark transition... I generally use the broadest date range and am understanding about varied sources on tests.):

Medieval Art in Europe                                                                                                            300-1500CE
(sometimes called Art of Middle Ages or even Dark Ages)

(Final) Division of Roman Empire  (Asian, European, & African portions no longer united). 395 CE

 (I say final tentatively, because it comes fleetingly back together several times)


Byzantine Art:                                                                                                                   313CE -1453CE  
Orthodox Christian Art                                                                                                     313 CE- Today
       geographically diverse, stylistically linked, linked by subject
      (313 Edict of Milan, 1453 Fall of Constantinople to Ottonian Turks)

Early Medieval                                                                                                                            500-800


Art of the Islamic World                                                                                                          660-today
linked by certain traits-- calligraphy, intricate abstract and botanical designs, and by the dominance of Islam in the geographies covered, but otherwise highly diverse geographically,  stylistically and in terms of content
(good timeline of dynstic divisions of Art in the Islamic world here.)


Early Christian Art:                                                                                                                 313-525 CE

        linked by subject; stylistically and geographically diverse



Anglo Saxon                                                                                                                                 400-1066    Stylistically linked, geographically diverse

Insular (Celtic)                                                                                                                            600-1200


Carolingian Renaissance (Charlemagne)                                                                                 780-900
France Belgium Netherlands Germany Austria --  diverse in style, Christian in content, but open to classical knowledge and style, unified by revival of earlier illusionistic styles)

Ottonian                                                                                                                                          950-1024
Germany, Austria, roughly speaking. Christian content, more philosphical than before, with investigation of challenging subject matter; blend  of German Migration period art and Roman architectural and illusionistic elements

Romanesque                                                                                                                                1000-13000
Western Europe, stylistically unified, mostly found in architecture


fyi Gothic comes next, then Renaissance                                                                                   1100-1500
Western Europe, stylistically Unified